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Mae West Vamps It At 83 Years Young

August 30, 2011

In this YouTube classic, a Mae West female impersonator — all done up in black with a mountain of blondness on her head — vamps and scamps through “Frankie & Johnny” and “After You’ve Gone” — as a roomful of males practically orgasms into submission.

This was on some 1976 Dick Cavett TV special or other, on which the petite powerhouse proved she could still knock the socks off anyone wearing socks.

Corseted and powdered to death, the woman was not going to let go of her sexpot image even as twilight approached, and she convinced you she shouldn’t ever have to, by sheer will and curvy determination.

Backstage, she no doubt told the guys, “This leg is Thanksgiving and this other leg is Christmas.